Yesterday marked the launch of one of New Internationalist's first multimedia immersive long-form pieces, Smoke and Mirrors. Cooking smoke is responsible for a staggering amount of deaths in the world — more than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined. Not only that, the need for wood c …

At New Internationalist, where I work, we often struggle to find Creative Commons images that are large enough to use for print. This is a custom google search form that sets up parameters for a search of commercially reusable and modifiable images suitable for print at sizes of 5.333x4 inches or …

This is the minimalistest of minimalist web casts, just to show off the awesomeness of a couple of vim modules for quick html h4x0ring. Specifically Surround and snipMate. w00t! …

Here's a neat little trick for people who have a *nix setup, vim and lynx browser. I’ve remapped my F8 Key to use lynx to dump the nicely formatted source of a web page in a new window. Useful for testing if your site is working. In my .vimrc I added the following lines: split at the bot …

Some useful snippets of technobabble, code and such for the discerning geeks and programmers amongst you. …